I've been gathering my favorite garden photos (mine & others), and magazine clippings to begin adding to the new flickr album I created today for a little inspiration called creative gardening.
The idea was spurred on by a phone call that came our way this afternoon asking if we'd like to have our home featured on our neighborhood's walking garden tour this spring. (If you'd like to take a peek at a few photos I've taken from past tours click here and here.)
A dangerous realization just occurred to me, about how much work it may entail, but it still sounds like fun all the same. Why not?! Actually gardening is one thing that comes really easily to me. I guess it's because on an instinctive level it's all about following your senses. What colors and shapes appeal to you, which accents pull on your heart-strings, what scents heighten your moods. All things I can easily comprehend (unlike certain things which come much harder for me like math, or doing taxes...)!
I'm still having a bit of trouble with blogger, my last post vanished for the third time. I'll cross my fingers this one doesn't get lost in an internet black hole too. ;) Anyone else had troubles with it, or is it just me... ?
It's so easy to find inspiration these days, thanks to the internet!
Top/Left: Katy, of One Good Bumblebee wrote about the We Love Gocco show that she was in recently. I was so anxious to look at the gallery after reading her post and instantly had the "I can't believe it's a Gocco" feeling once I did. I couldn't even think straight as I was buying the print "Little Love" by Minza Wada, I think I may have been in a pure inspiration induced daze.
Top/Right: I love the work of Dawbis. She's got such an original style, a great eye for color and texture, and the sentimental messages in her work so often pull on my heart-strings. Unhappy with this piece, she had offered to give it to someone (instead of throwing it away) so she could re-work the idea. I had really lucky timing! Now it's hanging in my office, along with a surprise collage that she also sent called "Red's Apple Forest". They are even lovelier in person!
Middle/Left: This painted rug is by one of my favorite creative bloggers JuJu! The colors are so yummy! (She promises to give a how-to for this project soon.)
Middle/Right: I love the simple lines and contrast of colors in this charcoal scarf by Alena Hennessy. Such a beauty, It's on my wish list.
Bottom/Left: This juxtapose necklace is a new member of my personal collection, it's by Jessee of Art School Drop-out. (Honestly, she gets points just for that name alone, genius!) It looks amazing on... I love her clever use of wire.
Bottom/Right: I'm pining over the work of 1920's artist Esther Hunt (yet again). I'm on a hunt to buy one of her chalkware busts (they used to sell them as souvenirs in China Town), they are highly collectible and also incredibly hard to come by. It truly is a treasure hunt. Lately while searching for these I've been coming across her beautiful prints, and well... now I'd like to own a few of those too!
Beauty & the Geek (the brainchild of Ashton Kutcher. It's terribly stereotypical with it's contestants (really it's shameful), but I have such a soft spot for the geeks. Especially Wes, it's hard to resist the charms of a guy who tracks monkeys with lazers for a living. There's also this little guy who rambles on and on like Woody Allen and carries what he cleverly calls his "MURSE" in lieu of saying what it really is a "man-purse". It's strangely endearing.)
Four Places I�ve Vacationed
Tokyo, Japan. (We ate fugu and didn't die while being wined and dined in Tokyo. Ye gads, it's a miracle.)
Florence, Italy
Goslar, Germany
Baja, Mexico
Four of My Favorite Dishes
Eggplant parmesean
Mixed green salad with candied walnuts and sliced pears.
Homemade pizza (and dough) cooked on a baking stone.
rotisserie chicken tacos (an easy recipe I picked up from REAL SIMPLE)
Exploring China Town in San Francisco (I've never been, can you believe it? I need to go!)
Beach combing in the tidepools on Kauai Island, or hunting for old broken pottery pieces on glass beach.
Touching all of the racks of beautiful clothes and housewares at Anthopologie.
Somewhere with fresh air! (There's a fire in the hills near my house today, the smell of the burning is almost suffocating... and ashes are falling all over the place like snow. Bleh, seriously it's awful.)
